Hi I have been following this tread very closely because I also would like to contribute some how to the project but don't know from where to start.
Chris: maybe we can start a group (google or yahoo) and get together all the new people who have the time and the insterest of learning and helping. We can help each others and find easy tasks to contribute to OpenBSD. What do you think? The Sauce On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 03:13:24AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > Richard Toohey wrote: > >[chop] > > > >The last time this was discussed ... kernel janitors. > > > >http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119377638131216&w=2 > > > >Lots of stuff in that thread; including many of the developers. > > > > > > That's a good (and long :) ) thread to read. > > I just got accused on another thread about meta packages of being mean- > spirited by not wanting to make it easy for people to have simple to > install super packages, but I think its best to learn by having it a > little harder. > > So, I , in part, agree with the developer's who are frustrated with > "wasting" their time training people who just vanish away without > producing anything. > > I run a construction business, I train many people, they spend my money > and time. Learn skills. Then they quit. > > It sucks. I could quit being a contractor. No more sucky loss of time > and effort! But, I like being self-employed. It sucks. Its cool. Its my > choice. > > I get it. I have to find something that needs to be done, do it, get > laughed at, try to fix it, get laughed at, lather, rinse repeat. > > But I also saw the suggestion to read books, well there are mountains of > books and some of them are very good, but many of them are absolute crap. > I sure can't afford to buy five garbage books on code that cost $49.95. > > My library system doesn't have much even with interlibrary loans. > > The developers all already know how to code well, us newbies who are > self-taught could use something that you might find difficult to provide > since you don't really need it anymore: Which books have appropriate > information for OpenBSD? How about opening a few new or old books and > listing a few good ones. > > I'd like to know a few good ones on C and the make process. > > Chris Bennett > > -- > A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, > butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance > accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, > give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new > problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight > efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. > -- Robert Heinlein
